Well, I think I started this exploration a couple months back now. After playing with things, it’s starting to fall into place. I think it’s nearly doable… of course, I just found out something new today that changed everything. First, let me recap what I’ve done so far. First off, got an antenna. It works GREAT on one TV, my upstairs TV gets nothing, and the bedroom TV is OK. But, at the end of the day, sports is about the only thing local that I’ll care about. So if it’s good on one TV, I’m fine. Next up, I ordered a Roku. Heard great things about them, so gave the Stick a try. It works great. I love that I can easily move it from one TV to the other (while I test). I also setup my Plex Server. I personally love this because I have all of my movies in a digital format and I can watch them easily on the Roku (or even through their website).
My latest revelation was doing the SlingTV free trail. let me just say that I was very disappointed with SlingTV. The service works fine, but the interface is awful. You can’t save shows that you like to any sort of menu, you have to page through everything. You the on-demand content is weak at best for the shows I care about, and you can’t save anything. I even talked to my wife, and she told me that she didn’t really care about the live TV aspect. As long as we can DVR what we want, she’s happy. So today, I started looking at buying a DVR for the antenna. Tablo DVR’s seem pretty nice, but you are talking $300 for the box, and another $50/year for the guide. Still cheaper than cable, but it’s another big expense to deal with.
Then I stumbled upon Playstation Vue. (keep in mind, I haven’t tried it yet, but I plan to). If i understand it correctly, for $30/month I get the same channels (technically more, but the extras I don’t care about), and I get a cloud DVR good for 28 days. If I understand correctly, its good for any of the channels, including AMC, and the other cable networks which you don’t get with SlingTV. Now, of course there is a catch. Vue doesn’t work with Roku. It only works Fire TV. So that means I would have to buy a different piece of hardware, which I think will happen soon!!!
If anyone has experience with the Vue I’d love to hear about it,
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